The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
Together the United States and China account for approximately 40 percent of the world's carbon dioxide emissions, and only through concerted and coordinated action the challenge of climate change can be met. Technology transfer promises to be one of the key areas for U.S.-China cooperation. This report discusses the challenges …
This document details the recent initiatives being undertaken by the Ministry of environment and Forests to address the issue of climate change. These are in the field of forestry, energy efficiency, research agenda and CDM capacities. While India finalizes the details of the Missions under its National Action Plan on …
The Punjab Environment Protection Department is establishing a climate change cell for offering technical advice to the stakeholders on climate change and carbon trading. EPD Director-General Shagufta Shahjehan told Dawn that since the country lagged far behind in carbon trading compared with other developing countries, the cell would help strengthen …
This presentation clarifies the concept of Clean Development Mechanism and CER. Its challenges, opportunities for CDM Projects, portfolio of India's approved CDM Projects. It also highlight about the Post 2012 CDM. This presentation is delivered by Ministry of Environment & Forests- Government of India, in South Asian media briefing workshop …
Pakistan has good potential for developing Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects through greenhouse gas emission reduction, however, this potential has not been fully exploited as yet. This was stated by federal environment secretary Kamran Lashari while speaking at a workshop on
R. Ramachandran The G8 summit has delivered precious little on climate change for the developing countries even as the developed countries have hailed the consensus on the 2oC limit on global warming as a major achievement. From the perspective of international negotiations on climate change, the most significant outcome of …
Bangladesh and UK Parliamentary Groups have launched a joint inquiry on climate change to find out how Bangladesh and many other very low carbon dioxide footprints have been prevented from benefiting from mechanisms like the Clean Development Mechanism. The All-Party Bangladesh Parliamentary Group on Climate Change and Environment of Bangladesh …
The World Bank said on Tuesday it will buy 500,000 tons of carbon credits from a forest project replanting about 4,120 hectares destroyed by deforestation in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Replanting forests, which have been cut or burned, is central to the reduction in global greenhouse case emissions because …
Plans by India to force renewable energy developers to share up to half their carbon offset revenues could prove complex to administer and deter investment, carbon market participants say. India's Central Electricity Regulatory Commission issued draft rules in May to harmonise the power price premium which state-owned distribution firms must …
This book provides relevant information on the significant opportunities that bio-carbon can offer to Eastern and Southern Africa countries to participate in the carbon market, it compiles eleven papers relating specific aspects of the bio-carbon sector. The main goal was to raise awareness amongst carbon project developers and other stakeholders …
This paper analyzes whether and how transfer of climate mitigation technologies to China occurs, by studying cases of seven technologies that are at the stage of deployment or diffusion. Most of these technologies were already transferred to China in terms of both technology adoption and local production. International division of …
There is now a growing consensus among governments that aggressive climate change mitigation is desirable, though they remain bitterly divided about how the associated burden should be shared. India
A temperature increase of 2oC above pre-industrial levels is the maximum target range established by the scientific community for stabilizing carbon concentrations at a level that prevents dangerous interference in the climate system. This corresponds to a target greenhouse gas concentration (in terms of carbon dioxide equivalents (CO2e)) of between …
This report documents the successful energy sector methane recovery and use policies that are in use around the world, with the aim of providing models that can be adapted
This paper deals with global mitigation strategy. More specifically the main purpose is to address the question of whether growth in the developing world is consistent with long?run climate change objectives. The first part of this paper lays out time paths for emissions for countries in various categories. These paths …
